Thursday reader's view: Get busy

When Mr. Obama was first elected, I chose to get the emails from the Americans United for Life organization, aul.org

The leader is Charmaine Yoest and what her group does for the pro-life movement is priceless. She is a lawyer and her group holds senators and representatives accountable for their votes in Congress. AUL Action produces legislation needed in Congress to combat policies. After the passage of Obamacare, with the final vote coming from a Michigan congressman, Charmaine’s group and others correctly no longer considered themselves friends with former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, and so withheld support for him, and he has since retired. She correctly pointed out Americans are now more pro-life than ever and “need to strike while the iron is hot.” It was Yoest who said that we should all be grateful to President Obama for his intensifying the horrors of abortion and solidifying the opposition against it.

She’s right!

Never before has Planned Parenthood been questioned as to what it does with our tax dollars. Currently Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, receives $1 million a day. They produced the report “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood.” Among other scandalous activities, the report documents the misuse of taxpayer money, failure to report child sex abuse, apparent willingness to assist alleged pimps and sex traffickers. Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block all federal funding of abortions as originally provided in Obamacare. HR. 358, the Protect Life Act, was passed 251-171 in the conservative Republican-controlled House and will now go to the liberally-controlled Democrat Senate.

We all need to write our senators to support this. Indiana 2011 law prohibits funding to Planned Parenthood and seven other states have began such laws in their states. Michigan isn’t among them yet, and it should be.

AUL also brought to my attention the issue that on March 11, 2009, President Obama reinstated funding to the United Nations Population Fund. Prior to this the U.S. had long withheld funding to the UNFPA because it supported and participated in China’s brutal policy forcing women to have abortions. Since this date, $145 million in taxpayer funds have been allocated to the UNFPA.

This past spring, cutting federal funding to the UNFPA won the American people’s vote in the first round of the YouCut program, started by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). In response, Rep. Renee Eumers (R-N.C.) introduced H.R. 2059 to prohibit American tax dollars from going to the UNFPA, a major sponsor of China’s abusive one-child policy — an inhumane practice and an egregious attack on women. But it needs support now. If you’re pro-life, it’s time to get busy! Do as I did and join the AUL newsletter. Write your congressman. He needs to know that the time to remain quiet is over.